Microsoft will launch its family of Surface devices in South Africa “later this year”, the US technology giant said on Wednesday.

Teraco Data Environments has announced plans to build another major data centre facility, this time in Cape Town, as it predicts continued soaring demand for cloud computing infrastructure.

Uber Technologies will eliminate 3 700 jobs and permanently close 180 driver service centres, the first in a series of cost-cutting measures to be announced in the next two weeks.

MTN South Africa said on Wednesday that it has re-opened all of its 410 stores nationwide, but trading hours will remain limited for now.

It’s been left for dead more than once. Yet bitcoin is once again staging a comeback reminiscent of the token’s glory days, with evangelists pegging their hopes on a technical event as the new catalyst.

Spotify built the world’s largest audio-streaming service by convincing millions of people around the world to pay for music. CEO Daniel Ek now sees an even bigger opportunity in advertising.

Jay Y Lee, the billionaire scion of Samsung Group, issued a personal apology for his company’s role in a scandal over succession that rocked South Korea and promised not to hand down leadership to his children.

Promoted | The rand has lost over 40% of its value to the US dollar since this time last year and is down 60% to the dollar over the last decade. Revix has launches USD Coin, a dollar-backed crypto asset, to help.

Telkom will delay the publication of its annual results by almost a month as the group will be unable to finalise these by 25 May, as previously anticipated, as a result of the national lockdown.

Facebook’s Oculus division is building a new version of its Quest standalone virtual reality headset that is likely to be smaller, lighter and have a faster image refresh rate for more realistic content.